10875 Quotes & Sayings

The reason why rappers are living in - you know, driving in Mercedes-Benz's and living in neighborhoods is because they're selling their music, not just to the black community, but to the white community. — Eric Bolling

I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life. — Robert Smith

Burn all the statutes and their shelves: They stir us up against our kind; And worse, against ourselves. — William Wordsworth

It shocks me when young kids still say, 'I want to do a magazine,' — Scott Schuman

It's an unmeetable level of writing. But even if it's something I feel like I can't ever attain, it doesn't crush my spirit. I figured out early on that you gotta find your own strengths and hone them rather than trying to emulate something that impresses you. — Paul Banks

If you're the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again. — Usain Bolt

Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through. — Markus Zusak

God has put you in this culture at this time for a reason. — David Platt

We're all Africans, everyone - black, white, yellow. — Nas

Once, right before a show, I realized I'd forgotten shoes. I didn't want to wear my flip-flops onstage because I could trip. I ended up going barefoot, which actually worked out because it became my 'thing.' — Brittany Howard

He had approached the villa on that night of the storm not out of curiosity about the music but because of a danger to the piano player. The retreating army often left pencil mines within musical instruments. Returning owners opened up pianos and lost their hands. — Michael Ondaatje

So now you have it. The plot, the whole plot, and nothing but the plot. — Elizabeth Peters

He was naked aside from a cloth tied round his waist. To spare the delicate sensibilities of the ladies present. Watching a man's entrails spilling out is excellent entertainment, but the sight of his cock, well, that would be obscene. A — Joe Abercrombie

You must have loved her awfully," I said, realizing even as I spoke that I made it sound as if Fenella were already dead. "Yes, sometimes very much," Porcelain said reflectively, "-and sometimes not at all." She must have seen my startled reaction. "Love's not some big river that flows on and on forever, and if you believe it is, you're a bloody fool. It can be dammed up until nothing's left but a trickle ... " "Or stopped completely, I added. — Alan Bradley